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okay, I'll basically watch paul gross do anything
HEY HEY GUYS EASTWICK.
I am ... going to make a concerted effort not to capslock this entire post. Or ideally at all.
Okay, let's get the bad stuff out of the way: I can admit right off the bat that it's rubbish. It's ridiculous, the writing isn't much good, it's sheer fucking crack, and on top of that the premise is skeevy as hell -- some seemingly unempowered women are given agency via the supernatural forces of Sexy Male Evil? Please no. So there's that.
(There's also the perennial problem I didn't think I would have to deal with re: Paul Gross, because I thought of it as The CKR Problem, ie "Hey, this week Callum's a serial killer! AWWW NO DON'T BE MEAN TO HIM IT'S CALLUM. ...Oh, right, he killed people. Okay, carry on?" Admittedly they may have cast Paul Gross as the devil because he's likable, but augh no I liked not putting him in that mental box with, oh, CKR and John Simm, the one labeled 'no Aria really stop that's creepy.')
This said, and my parenthetical distress aside, for something that has a premise wherein seemingly unempowered women are given agency via the supernatural forces of Sexy Male Evil, it's ... being pretty good about trying like hell to avoid too many unfortunate implications? I don't know how well it's doing, but I do know that so far their powers have resulted in [a] Kat deciding to divorce her emotionally abusive jerk of a husband, [b] Roxie saving her daughter from being raped, and [c] ...Joanna does not get as many points but at least she realised that getting rid of Will's agency was a sketchtastic thing to do! I dunno, I think it is too early to give any kind of call on this. The thing is, though, I like all of them. I am kind of invested in what will happen to them! Most impressive considering the writing was ridiculous.
My possibly-in-vain attempts at Actual Thoughts aside, though, uh ... heeeey, Paul. I have a theory that someone sat him down and went, "Okay, the writing for this show? It could probably use some work. So we figure that the best way to distract everyone from everything is for you to say every line of dialogue, no matter how ridiculous, like it's porn." And lo, Paul Gross thought this seemed like a sensible idea and anyway is obviously ENJOYING THE HELL OUT OF HIMSELF and says every line of dialogue like it's porn. It's like he took every single thing that I find even remotely hot about Fraser and Geoffrey and then he turned them into some evil patchwork of me sitting on the couch with a huge stupid grin on my face and wondering when the fuck the room got so warm.
In conclusion it was basically everything I expected it would be, and deep down I'm going to keep watching for the express purpose of one day writing Fraser and Darryl in the same room. It would be like one of those cartoons with the shoulder angel and the shoulder devil!
...Yeah, it's time for me to stop blithering and get some sleep.
I am ... going to make a concerted effort not to capslock this entire post. Or ideally at all.
Okay, let's get the bad stuff out of the way: I can admit right off the bat that it's rubbish. It's ridiculous, the writing isn't much good, it's sheer fucking crack, and on top of that the premise is skeevy as hell -- some seemingly unempowered women are given agency via the supernatural forces of Sexy Male Evil? Please no. So there's that.
(There's also the perennial problem I didn't think I would have to deal with re: Paul Gross, because I thought of it as The CKR Problem, ie "Hey, this week Callum's a serial killer! AWWW NO DON'T BE MEAN TO HIM IT'S CALLUM. ...Oh, right, he killed people. Okay, carry on?" Admittedly they may have cast Paul Gross as the devil because he's likable, but augh no I liked not putting him in that mental box with, oh, CKR and John Simm, the one labeled 'no Aria really stop that's creepy.')
This said, and my parenthetical distress aside, for something that has a premise wherein seemingly unempowered women are given agency via the supernatural forces of Sexy Male Evil, it's ... being pretty good about trying like hell to avoid too many unfortunate implications? I don't know how well it's doing, but I do know that so far their powers have resulted in [a] Kat deciding to divorce her emotionally abusive jerk of a husband, [b] Roxie saving her daughter from being raped, and [c] ...Joanna does not get as many points but at least she realised that getting rid of Will's agency was a sketchtastic thing to do! I dunno, I think it is too early to give any kind of call on this. The thing is, though, I like all of them. I am kind of invested in what will happen to them! Most impressive considering the writing was ridiculous.
My possibly-in-vain attempts at Actual Thoughts aside, though, uh ... heeeey, Paul. I have a theory that someone sat him down and went, "Okay, the writing for this show? It could probably use some work. So we figure that the best way to distract everyone from everything is for you to say every line of dialogue, no matter how ridiculous, like it's porn." And lo, Paul Gross thought this seemed like a sensible idea and anyway is obviously ENJOYING THE HELL OUT OF HIMSELF and says every line of dialogue like it's porn. It's like he took every single thing that I find even remotely hot about Fraser and Geoffrey and then he turned them into some evil patchwork of me sitting on the couch with a huge stupid grin on my face and wondering when the fuck the room got so warm.
In conclusion it was basically everything I expected it would be, and deep down I'm going to keep watching for the express purpose of one day writing Fraser and Darryl in the same room. It would be like one of those cartoons with the shoulder angel and the shoulder devil!
...Yeah, it's time for me to stop blithering and get some sleep.
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So many dittoes to your points [a-c]. I actually said, out loud, "Thank you for fixing the skeevy consent thing!" when Joanna released Will from her hypnotism. This show is inherently flawed, but so is most of TV. (For purposes of comparison, the other shows this season that I know anything about are Glee and Stargate: Universe - Glee I watch through my hands, SGU I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.) I really, really want fandom to come storming in, latch on to the good parts, and fix the rest with fic. (Hey, I'm an SGA fan. What can I say?)
Anyhow, this is a little confessional comment to say that I, too, watched the Eastwick premier and I kind of liked it. And I kind of wanttonominateitforYuletide. Erm. Yes. Oh Paul Gross, what you do to me.
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And, uh, I am pretty sure you said intelligent things before you destroyed all my sense and taste with that suggestion. Which is: considering that the show is based on someone else's inherently skeevy premise, so far they seem to be doing decently well. I am going to cross my fingers really hard. And also maybe write the damn fic myself.